Customization of content in Instant Search Widget

This article is general for Shopify, BigCommerceWix, WooCommerce, Magento 1, Magento 2, CS-Cart.

It’s possible to customize what information, sections, and widget elements to display to customers and how to show that in the Instant Search Widget. To do so, you should adjust the settings in the Searchanise Search & Filters control panel Search & Navigation > Instant search widget section > Content tab.

In this article, you’ll learn how to change the settings and get a clarification on how each setting affects the Instant Search Widget content.

Content settings description

Content setting Description
Products
Show products The widget won’t show the widget’s Products section if the setting is disabled.
Sets the maximum number of products displayed in the widget’s Products section.
Show price Displays the product price in the product cards.
Show compare at price (Shopify)

Show list price (Wix, WooCommerce, CS-Cart)

Show original price (Magento)

Show retail price (BigCommerce)

 

Shows the original product price compared with the discounted product price if the product has a discount.

The enabled Discount labels setting overrides this one.

Displays SKU (the product code) in the product cards.
Sets the maximum number of strings displayed in the product description in the product cards.
Zero price action Sets the action if the product price is 0.
Zero price text Sets the text displayed instead of the zero price. The setting is shown only if the Hide zero price, show text instead option is set in the Zero price action setting.
Additional
product field
Shows the selected additional product field in the product cards. You can set the label for the field in the Translations & Texts section > Instant Search Widget tab > Additional product field text box.
Search Suggestions
Show suggestions The widget won’t show the widget’s Suggestion section if the setting is disabled.
Sets the maximum number of suggestions displayed in the widget. If you set the value to 0, the widget won’t show the Suggestions section.

The valid values are from 0 to 25.

Suggest single words Shows the single-word suggestions 
Suggest automatically generated terms Creates suggestion terms in the Suggestion Dictionary. based on successful customer searches from the found product titles and descriptions
Show popular suggestions on click Shows suggestions as the customers click in the search bar before they start typing. The setting will work if there are at least 5 suggestions in the Suggestion Dictionary.
Show recent customer searches Shows the search suggestions based on the recent customer searches if they match the current search query
Other
Highlight search term Highlights the current search query in the widget’s Suggestions section.
Show the ‘View All Products’ link
Displays the View All Product link under the Products section for Legacy templates or the View All Items button for actual templates.
Show categories The widget won’t show the widget’s Categories section if the setting is disabled.

This setting is absent on the Wix platform as the widget doesn’t have the Categories section.

Sets the maximum number of categories displayed in the widget’s Categories section.

This setting is absent on the Wix platform as the widget doesn’t have the Categories section.

Show pages The widget won’t show the widget’s Pages section if the setting is disabled.
Sets the maximum number of pages displayed in the widget’s Pages section.
Show vendors This setting is available only on CS-Cart Muti-Vendor v. 4.14.3 or later and Searchanise v. 1.2.2 or later.

The widget won’t show the widget’s Vendors section if the setting is disabled.

Please note, that Searchanise hasn’t supported CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Ultimate completely yet. So if you have some storefronts with different vendors, Searchanise will display all vendors from all storefronts and their products in the search results on the current storefront.

Vendors qty. This setting is available only on CS-Cart Muti-Vendor v. 4.14.3 or later and Searchanise v. 1.2.2 or later.

Sets the maximum number of vendors displayed in the widget’s Vendors section.

Please note, that Searchanise hasn’t supported CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Ultimate completely yet. So if you have some storefronts with different vendors, Searchanise will display all vendors from all storefronts and their products in the search results on the current storefront.

Search results order
Controls the order of the widget sections. To change the order, drag and drop the blocks.

Adjust content of the widget

Steps:

  1. Go to the Searchanise Search & Filter control panel > Search & Navigation > Instant search widget section > Content tab.
  2. Adjust the settings.
  3. To check out the changes, type a search term in the preview area.

    Customization of content in Instant Search Widget

  4. If you like the results, click the Apply changes button.

FAQs

  1. How to hide product prices?
  2. How to display the original price without a discount?
  3. How to hide the category section?
  4. How to hide product images?
  5. How to display SKU?
  6. How to show product brands?
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Updated on November 7, 2023

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